Mastering Perl--New from O'Reilly: The Ultimate Resource for Creating Professional Programs with Perl

Sebastopol, CA--This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl
tutorials, which includes Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction
to the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, the indispensable
guide to creating re-usable Perl software. By conveying Perl's special
models and programming idioms, Mastering Perl pulls it all together to
help you bend Perl to your will.

This book isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about
Perl programming so you can solve real-life problems of debugging,
maintenance, and configuration that you encounter as a working programmer.

Profile and benchmark Perl so that you know where to focus your improvements

Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable

See how Perl keeps track of package variables and how you can use that for
some powerful tricks

Define subroutines on the fly and turn the tables on normal procedural
programming

Modify and jury-rig modules to fix code without editing the original source

Let your users configure your programs without touching the code

Detect errors Perl doesn't report and how to tell users about them

Get your Perl program talk back to you with Log4perl

Store data for later use in another program or a later run of the same
program, and how to send data over a network

Write programs as modules to get the benefit of Perl's distribution and
testing tools

Mastering Perl starts you on your path to becoming the person with the
answers or, failing that, the person who knows how to discover and
troubleshoot the problem.

brian d foy, an instructor for Stonehenge Consulting Services, is the
publisher of The Perl Review. He founded the nonprofit Perl Mongers, Inc.,
which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. brian
maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation and several
modules on CPAN. He's a frequent speaker at Perl conferences and a contributor
to The O'Reilly Network, The Perl Journal, Dr. Dobbs, use.perl.org, and
several Perl Usenet groups.

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